January 2010 Examples


Sentence Diagramming Grab Bag

1. As you stand in the silence, you hear noises outside.

2. At first glance, the game is simplistic and pointless.

3. Minecraft is a stunning game, combining the inspiration of realizing some of your wildest creation dreams in the midst of a beautiful landscape with the dark anxiety of exploration, and, well, zombies.

4. I have grown up in a very consumerist sort of society.

5. If you really want to feel happy, justifying unhappiness is not going to achieve it.

6. In conclusion, cloning is exceptionally hard and quite challenging.

7. If everything you touch turns to skittles, wouldn’t the air become skittles too?

8. I wake up, and it is still dark.

9. Instead the only thing I can think about is how dark it is beyond the door.

10. I gasp aloud and my stomach drops to my toes.

11. I sprint down the trail and reach the steep gravelly incline that leads down to the water.

12. As I got older, I realized that all these problems I was reading about in teen novels were all glaringly real and so common in middle and high school.

13. I feel sorry for these people.

14. On a vacation, my uncle brought up something to the effect of juggling.

15. Once I am sure there’s nothing going on I step inside, letting the door thud shut.

16. That was great.

17. It is certainly a quandary that the most powerful nation in the world would allow their classified documents be so easily accessible, even though – as the reaction of Hillary Clinton shows – there are a great many documents that they would really rather not have out there.

18. The United States has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims.

19. I believe that these words make up part of our rights, and I also, believe that Franklin’s words still apply today, for he who give up his own liberty in exchange for safety, is ultimately dooming himself to oppression.

20. I have a vision, one of a collective regime of peace, bread and land and now, I ask you, the people of Russia to help me achieve this goal, so that never again will the efforts of the common man be taken for granted by his peers

21. Max felt safer with the entire width if the car between them.

22. The green table is decimated by absenteeism today.

23. A lot of bad art gets excused as intentional.

24. It's a godd story with a bad lesson.

25. At the stage the developing embryo is called the gastrula.

26. The muddle layer is called the mesoderm and will form the kidneys, muscles, blood vessels, reproductive organs and bones.

27. In the next stage of development the cells of the blastula organize themselves into three layers.

28. At this stage the ball of cells is about 0.2mm in diameter and is called a morula

29. The brownish tune looks completely and utterly boring even though it is an essential source of Omega 3, a vital substance your mind needs to work better than usual.

30. After fertilization, the fertilized egg, or zygote, begins the process of mitosis and undergoes a series of rapid cell divisions.

31. She, the little one in the corner, is stronger than a thousand steroid-using musclemen.

32. Pollination is the transfer of male gametes in the structures called pollen from the male reproductive part of the plant to the female part of a plant.

33. Colourful flowers can attract bees and other insects that feed on plant sugars and pollen.

34. The nerds, with their suspenders pulled high and their acne toned to perfection, consider the learning process that is school highly important.

35. After the pollen lands on the female part of the plant a pollen tube forms, which is a structure that delivers the sperm cells to the egg cells.

Subjects

Perry the Platypus
zombies
Steve
a curious monkey
John Lennon
King James

Verbs

To be
to act
to live
to die
To feel
To act

Linking
becomes
seems
feels


InTransitive


Transitive
To regret



Prepositional Phrases

Time
after the shower
when you wake up
outside the school


Place
over the moon


Subject Complement

Nouns

a rockstar
a fool



Adjective
alive
elated
fluffy

Direct Object (Noun Phrase)